Släkthistoria för Rapalje
Rapalje Vad efternamn betyder
Altered form under Dutch influence of Walloon and northern French Rapaille: topographic name from Old French and Old Walloon raspaille ‘copse wood where it is allowed to cut trees’ or a habitational name from Raspaille a place in Belgium. Compare Rapelje and Rappleye.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
